“According to the book of Revelation, Jesus died in order to make us not rescued nonentities, but restored human beings with a… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“If Luke and John were simply constructing narratives to combat Doceticism, they surely shot themselves in the foot with both barrels when… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“People who believe that Jesus is already Lord and that he will appear again as judge of the world are called and… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“so many theological terms, words like ‘monotheism’ are late constructs, convenient shorthands for sentences with verbs in them, and that sentences with… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The twenty-seven books of the New Testament were all written within two generations of the time of Jesus--in other words, by the… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The New Testament insists, in book after book, that when Jesus of Nazareth died on the cross, something happened as a result… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Scripture trains us to listen to and learn from stories of all kinds, inside the sacred text and outside, and to discern… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“But if Luke and John were simply constructing narratives to combat Docetism, they surely shot themselves in the foot with both barrels… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“But over against this downplaying or mocking we also see, from the earliest documents of the New Testament right on through the… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“In particular, they seem to have interpreted Jesus’s crucifixion within a much bigger—and perhaps more dangerous—story than simply the question of whether… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“In other words, the Bible isn't there simply to be an accurate reference point for people who want to look things up… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The resurrection isn’t just a surprise happy ending for one person; it is instead the turning point for everything else. It is… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Because the early Christians believed that resurrection had begun with Jesus and would be completed in the great final resurrection on the… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“having a hard enough time explaining to his disciples that he had to die; they never really grasped that at all, and… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Unless a person can give reasons, there is, literally, no reason why anyone else should take that person seriously. But without reasons,… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The focus in all these cases is upon Jesus’s death on the cross, not the resurrection. These must remain central in any… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“[re: I Corinthians 15:34,58] "The present life of the church, in other words, is not about "soul-making," the attempt to produce or… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“the story the Psalms tell is the story Jesus came to complete. It is the story of the creator God taking his… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Conservatives have said that Jesus was bodily raised, while liberals have denied it, but neither group has seen the bodily resurrection as… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The author compares rationalism and much of organized religion do a dictator who paves over natural springs in order to dispense water… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Many in the church have turned their back on serious study, and have embraced an anti-intellectualism which refuses to learn anything from… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The gospel by which individuals come to personal faith, and so to that radical transformation of life spoken of so often in… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The gospel of Jesus points us and indeed urges us to be at the leading edge of the whole culture, articulating in… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“This does not, therefore, mean 'the gospel reveals justification by faith as the true scheme of salvation, as opposed to Jewish self-help… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“We have to grow into Scripture, like a young boy inheriting his older brother's clothes and flopping around in them, but he… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Blessings on the poor in spirit! The kingdom of heaven is yours” (Matt. 5:3) doesn’t mean, “You will go to heaven when… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Rules of faith and creeds are like the guard rails on the side of the highway, which prevent you from skidding off… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Once you understand how first-century Jewish covenant theology actually works, you will see that law-court language, 'participation' language, and a great deal… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“This means that the church, the followers of Jesus Christ, live in the bright interval between Easter and the final great consummation. Let's make… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“The very mention of crucifixion was taboo in polite Roman circles, since it was the lowest form of capital punishment, reserved for slaves and… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“Sunday, kept as a commemoration of Easter ever since that event itself (a quite remarkable phenomenon when you come to think about it), is… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“The point of trying to understand the cross better is not so that we can congratulate ourselves for having solved an intellectual crossword puzzle,… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“there is no such thing as a god’s-eye view (by which would be meant a Deist god’s-eye view) available to human beings, a point… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“The “goal” is not “heaven,” but a renewed human vocation within God’s renewed creation. This is what every biblical book from Genesis on is… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“having a hard enough time explaining to his disciples that he had to die; they never really grasped that at all, and they certainly… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“If we are talking about the victory over evil and the launch of new creation, it won’t make much sense unless we are working… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“The personal message of Good Friday, expressed in so many hymns and prayers which draw on the tradition of the Suffering Servant (Isaiah 53)… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“To recognize that the Psalms call us to pray and sing at the intersections of the times--of our time and God's time, of the… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“Successful resistance to temptation may result in an increase of moral muscle, but that is because one is going to need it. A temptation… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“Blessings on the poor in spirit! The kingdom of heaven is yours” (Matt. 5:3) doesn’t mean, “You will go to heaven when you die.”… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“As C. S. Lewis regularly remarked, the chronological snobbery of the modern age (i.e. the assumption that anything that comes after around 1750 is… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“The kingdom of God is, at its heart, about God’s sovereignty sweeping the world with love and power, so that human beings, each made… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“pre-Christian Judaism, including the disciples during Jesus’s lifetime, never envisaged the death of the Messiah. That is why they never thought of his resurrection,… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
![“[re: I Corinthians 15:34,58] "The present life of the church, in other words, is not about "soul-making," the attempt to produce or train disembodied beings for a future disembodied life. It is about working with fully human beings who will be reembodied at the last, after the model of the Messiah.” quote by N.T. Wright](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c3d/n-t-wright-1173_church_re-i-corinthians-15-34-58-the-present-li_2315826.jpg)
